Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Flat Shoals:
34.857870, -83.015150
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Flat Shoals
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Flat Shoals.
Within South Carolina, the name Flat Shoals is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Hart County
This Flat Shoals is located in Hart County and lies 34 miles [54.7 km]<1> to the south of the Flat Shoals that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hart County community of Flat Shoals.
North Carolina
Stokes County
This Flat Shoals is located in Stokes County and lies 187 miles [300.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Flat Shoals that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stokes County community of Flat Shoals.
Surry County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Flat Shoals [Surry County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Flat Shoals ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Flat Shoals to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Flat Shoals and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Flat Shoals to Columbia, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 432 miles [695.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,329 miles [10,185.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,033 miles [11,318.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,911 miles [7,903.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Flat Shoals) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Flat Shoals, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Flat Shoals to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Flat Shoals. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8579, Longitude: -83.0152 In this case, the coordinates for Flat Shoals have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.483 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.947 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.464 degrees.